Case Study: Dow Jones achieves 30% faster product development and 25% lower data-center costs with Amazon Web Services

Dow Jones - Customer Case Study

Dow Jones, the global news and business information company behind The Wall Street Journal and other publications, needed a faster, more agile way to serve its large Asia audience (about 12.8 million users and 90 million monthly page views) after its Asian data center lease ended. The company wanted to reduce latency for Asia-based customers, avoid hardware procurement and maintenance delays, and free engineering teams to focus on revenue-generating products instead of running data centers.

Dow Jones migrated its Asia operations to AWS in about six weeks, using Amazon EC2 across multiple Availability Zones, Elastic Load Balancing, VPC, CloudWatch, IAM, WAN accelerators and Oracle databases, and has begun running apps like DJ Chat on the platform. The move routed all Asia traffic through AWS, increased product development velocity by at least 30%, cut costs by roughly 25% (more than $40,000/year), eliminated hardware refresh burdens, and enabled the company to scale and innovate more rapidly with plans to expand AWS-powered products and personalization/analytics.

Dow Jones

Stephen Orban

Global CTO